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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what tune does Lettie begin to bind the creature that she and the narrator encounter in Chapter 4?
(a) “If I Had a Hammer.”
(b) “All the Pretty Little Horses.”
(c) "Girls and Boys Come Out to Play."
(d) “Bushel and a Peck.”

2. In Chapter 7, where does the narrator go to pray that Ursula has tired of her little game?
(a) His parents’ room.
(b) The bathroom.
(c) His laboratory.
(d) The balcony.

3. In Chapter 2, what room is the narrator’s bedroom over?
(a) The kitchen.
(b) The dining room.
(c) The television room.
(d) The living room.

4. What color shirt is the narrator’s father wearing in Chapter 7?
(a) Blue.
(b) Yellow.
(c) Green.
(d) White.

5. What color is Lettie looking for in Chapter 4?
(a) Pink.
(b) Yellow.
(c) Purply-blue.
(d) Greenish-yellow.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color hair does Ursula have?

2. How many pieces of gray cloth settle to the earth after Lettie completes the binding in Chapter 4?

3. What is the setting of the story that the narrator reads after his father and Ursula come in from the gardens in Chapter 7?

4. Where had Callie Anders lived?

5. In Chapter 6, how many days a week does the narrator’s mother say she will work at her new job?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Mr. Wollery find in the garden in Chapter 3?

2. How does the narrator describe Ursula when she first arrives?

3. What new job has the narrator's mother taken in Chapter 6?

4. What does the narrator’s sister do every night before bed?

5. How does the narrator get rid of the worm after removing it from his foot?

6. Who steals the narrator’s father’s car in Chapter 2? Why?

7. What does the narrator describe having cut out of his knee with a penknife in Chapter 5? What did he learn?

8. Why does the narrator have to share a room with his sister in Chapter 2?

9. What does the narrator’s father do when he comes home from work in Chapter 7?

10. What items lead Lettie to the creature in Chapter 4?

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